The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-08-06

on BED" Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, who is
one of the principal financial hackers of the
inventor Keely, writes on ''The Kelly Motor
Secret" The sensational article of the num-
Der, sis the Base Ball Player ChatteI?" is
contributed by John Montgomery Ward,
captain of the New York Ball Club, and is a
vigorous attack on the methods of the League
and the Association in reserving, selling and
loaning players. Mr.. Ward, in plain, simple,
forcible language, calls public attention to
the abuses to which these methods are liable
the number are contributed by Edith M.
Thomas, VIM. H. Hayne, F. D. Stickney,
Kate Putnam Osgood, and Kate Vannah.
Scribner's Magazine for August contains
most interesting paper on the cause and eff
feet of tornadoes, whirlwinds and other wind
storms, by Professor N. s. Shafer, entitled
"The instability of the Atmosphere" with
some excellent illustrations. Among these is
an engraving from an instantaneous photo
graph of a tornado near jamestown, Dakota,
taken on June 6, 1887 "The Picturesque
Quality of Holland" is clever paper by
Mr.. George Hitchcock, delightfully."- illustrat-
ed by the author. The fifth instalment of the
unpublished Letters of Thackeray," with
several Thackeray drawings, including hu-
morous equestrian figure of the author. "The
Revival of Handicraft," by Professor John
F. Weir, of Yale College, is an especially
timely paper, coming when the subject of
manual training is exciting so much atten-
ton. There are several capital short stories
by T. R. Sullivan ("The Lost Rembrandt
H. FL. Boyesen (''A Perilous Incognito" con-
cluded), Lizzie W. Champney ("Father
Acacio's Little Game''). GA Girls Life
Eighty Years Ago." selections from the let
tersof Eliza Southgate Bovine, begun in July,
is concluded in this number. "Realism and
the Art of Fiction" by Arlo Bates, is written
from the idealist's point of view. 1t combats
the theory which Mr.. Howells has so vigor-
ously advocated There are also several fine
poems and the continuation of the serial,
"Seth's Brothers Wife," The number is
one that well maintains the excellent reputa-
ton this magazine has so early secured.
New York, Scribner & Co.
of magazine virtues in the predominating
timeliness of its strong articles, excellently
illustrated. The leading position is appro-
priately occupied by Miss Welch's paper on
1.-THE Neighborhood of the International
Park" at Niagara, unfolding the unappre-
ciated charms of natural beauty and historic
association clustering around the cataract.
She says, that "while hundreds of tourists
visit the Falls of Niagara every season, not
one in a thousand actually sees the river.
But with the freeing of Niagara celebrated
by New York State and Canada, July Is, 1885,
the river experienced new birth. Hereafter,
in the true spirit of this international bond,
the traveller may explore Niagara to where,
actually freed from its high PERCEPTIONS
mural boundaries, it pours the waters of our
upper inland seas into the broad Ontario.
Here eliminates the historic interest of the
Niagara frontier, as at the Whirlpool modern
rock-reading tells US to seek clew to its
geological past. For of few other rivers may
it be said that they have three fold charm,
appealing alike to artist, historian and man
of SCIENCE" The reader is chaperoned
through the most remarkable attractions, ap-
pealing to the historian, the geologist, and
the pedestrian, by several romantic routes.
The latest scientific version of the history of
the gorge is also set forth, revolutionizing
the times standard for calculating the re-
moteness of the Glacial Epoch, which geol-
ogy finds in Niagara, and reducing the esti-
mated age of the Falls from 900 years to
less than 10000. The fifteen illustrations
profusely display the picturesqueness sur
ournding this sublime spot. One of the page
engravings is magnificent picture of the
Whirlpool 1t is impossible for the traveller
to get anywhere so full view of this awe
inspiring scene, where the river 'untwists
itself like some mighty serpent from
its sinuous contortions in this concave prison,
to pour itself in an emerald green wave into
a channel at right angles with its former
COURSE" This illustration is ingeniously
made from two different photographs united
into one, and is triumph of Photographic
skill. The original is by George Barker,
whose splendid copyrighted views of Niagara
are justly celebrated, and is most interest
ing solution of the problem of copying by
the camera an enormous field of view which
is only partly accessible.
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